People are now attacking road safety infrastructure with explosives in suburban England.

Bear in mind that Tory MPs actively encouraged this behaviour!

  • theinspectorst@kbin.social
    10·
    11 months ago

    At this early stage, the incident is not being treated as terrorism

    The UK legal definition of terrorism:

    The Terrorism Act 2006 uses the definition of terrorism contained in the Terrorism Act 2000. Section 34 amends that definition slightly, to include specific types of actions against international governmental organisations, such as the UN. The definition in the Terrorism Act 2000 (as amended) states:

    (1) In this Act “terrorism” means the use or threat of action where:
    the action falls within subsection (2)
    the use or threat is designed to influence the government or an international governmental >organisation or to intimidate the public or a section of the public
    the use or threat is made for the purpose of advancing a political, religious or ideological cause.

    (2) Action falls within this subsection if it:
    involves serious violence against a person
    involves serious damage to property
    endangers a person’s life, other than that of the person committing the action
    creates a serious risk to the health or safety of the public or a section of the public
    is designed seriously to interfere with or seriously to disrupt an electronic system

    I cannot see how this is not domestic terrorism.

    • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      I was thinking it might come under the definition, but hadn’t gotten around to looking it up, so thanks!

      Obviously they did (2). They would have to argue that they weren’t actually trying to make the GLC change the policy, so as to avoid (1) which may or may not be tenable. I kind of think not!